Senior Aviation Strategy Manager

Description

Heathrow Airport plays a vital role in connecting Britain to the world and a major role in the UK economy, wider society and our local communities. As one of the largest regulated businesses in the world, we navigate a complex strategic landscape to deliver for all our customers in a competitive travel, aviation and airport market.  

Our vision is to be an extraordinary airport, fit for the future.  

The purpose of the Aviation Team is to maintain Heathrow’s global competitiveness – working with airlines to strengthen the hub status and connectivity of the airport This is done through developing our long-term strategy, ensuring the voice of the customer is represented in decision making, and supporting the wider team to develop and maintain successful relationships with airline customers.  

The Senior Aviation Strategy Manager supports the Head of Aviation Strategy to set the strategic direction for Heathrow’s Aviation team. The role works in close collaboration with aviation business development, account management, pricing and cargo experts as well as colleagues in central strategy and regulation to create winning strategies to maintain Heathrow’s global competitiveness and grow revenue. 

Responsibilities

• Developing the holistic Aviation strategy to maintain Heathrow’s global competitiveness and further refine strategies across pricing, network, cargo, and account management.
• Lead planning activity to translate strategic intent into executable plans for the Aviation team, working closely with the wider Aviation Team and supporting in course correcting and refining strategies.
• Support strategic thinking around long term strategy and ensure Aviation agenda and airline views are represented in Expansion plans.
• Support in developing high quality materials to be shared with airlines to support strategic conversations  
• Produce exec ready content that cuts through complexity to cleanly and persuasively articulate strategic direction and path to value.
• Ensure account management teams are equipped with high quality strategic content for customer engagement. 

Qualifications

• Experience in developing, communicating, and implementing impactful strategy.
• Previous experience in the aviation industry.
• Articulate with excellent writing, presentation, and data visualisation skills.
• Excellent communicator, able to cut through complexity and tell the story behind the numbers, using data to drive decision making and make compelling arguments.

Ideally, you’ll also have:  

• Understanding of economic regulation / regulated environments.